Planting a Dye Garden Workshop

We are thrilled to collaborate with Growing Works on these Growing Colour Together sessions. They will be leading a practical workshop on growing plants for colour, focusing on what can be grown in Kirklees, colours, growing considerations, plant harvesting, seasonality, seed harvesting and how to forage safely. It will include a practical seed sewing activity and opportunities to ask questions about planting and planning your dye garden. The Growing Works site is inspirational with lots to explore.

Growing Works nurtures healthy lives outdoors, working within the community to support families and individuals by making positive changes in their lives. By connecting people with their environment and providing supportive activities they can help to improve health and wellbeing and enable their participants to build relationships and access support.

We hope you can make it, sign up to secure your place!

Growing Colour Together is more than a project, it’s a MOVEMENT! And our ambition is to create a district-wide, natural-dye, colour garden! We want to give everyone the opportunity to ‘have a grow,’ use what’s grown to make natural dyes, and learn about the environmental implications of chemical dyes and what we buy. It’s an evolving project and we want people to join in with the areas that interest you to grow, make, create and debate, so this event is part of a series of talks, events and workshops to help you get started with your colour garden.